St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-06
FAITHFUL B0W-WOWS
A Barking Dog Never Bites,
But He Makes a Rafting
Good Sentinel.
Something About the Charac-
teristics of the Bull Terrier
That Never Banks.
Women Who Are Afraid Of the
Bark Of a Dog in the
Night.
English Pugs With Herr Most
Faces the FavOriteS With
Young Ladies.

the GLOBE man as he
stepped into the dog
|. !. !
~ fancier'S den. at the
~\~! same time gathering his
/IM v legs closely around him
EkSNR out of reach of numer-
&&Vf Gus ours.
t&4 ''That's good enough
MS8G to put in poetry" said
%& the fancier, looking up
&S8J with grin, ''and that's
n XfA about the end of it.
II &$AH WatchdOgS are not
N T&A worth the skin that
II $M covers them. True,
N lXSSsNH they might let you
!2N know when burglar is
-- providing around, but
there's another side to the story. They
know every dog that passes the window
and an exchange OF compliments IS sure
to occur. much to the edificatiOn of the
neighbOrhOOd. The policeman strolling
leiSurelv by is invariably spoken to, and
when the beast can think of nothing else
he will bay the mOon.' His principal
point is in keeping the entire household
on the alert, thus, you see, preventing
burglars from getting in their work.
mo, don't train them for burglars.
The natural sagacity of some of them
leads them to it. They may not perform
their duty with the energy OF that
Whitley brown cur you see there with the
patch over his eve, but they'll do. Do
you see that brute there, the bull terrier
with the undershot jaw. ugly
as an anarchist? Well, he
might have both eyes open
when robber is squeezing in the pam
try window and would make no effort
to stop his progress. Once inside the
man would stay there. IT'S hard to tell
what bull terrier would do with a man
he had at his mercy. Depends on his
disposition and general training. The
man 'ain't sayin' wOrd,' unless he
yells to the occupants of the house, and
he seldom seeks this course. A per-
s0nal encounter wouldn't be a very
funny joke, and the possession OF re-
volver aids but little. He is hard
brute to kill and a wound, like that of a
grizzly. only makes him worse. Draw
lug the gun would hasten the row and
in few minutes, or seconds, that ter
rier is bound to get 'throat grip" and
the pistols no good. The bull terrier
don't awaken the family. He's doing
the watching. and it is Ofen asked what
will he do with the burglar he catches
in the house?
A FAITHFUL DOG.
1.-THE question has been answered quite
fOrcibly. A certain gentleman was
warned by his butler that several sus-
piciOus men had been lettering about
the house and that the silverware
should go to safe deposit. The butler
told him this after banking hours, but
the gentleman borrowed mean bull
terrier of a butcher and forgot to tell
the butler about it. All was silent that
night No one was disturbed, but in
the pantry in the morning the dog was
found crOuching by the dead body OF
the butler, whose throat was torn
out. The dog had caught the
butter in the act of handing the silver
ware to his cOnfederateS outside, whose
footprints were found under the win
dow. He had never thought of the dog.
or calculated that he would interfere. l
knew an old lawyer who was suddenly
awakened by fiendish yellS for help. On
the marble-tOp table in the parlOr he
found burglar sitting, and his bull ter
rier gazing at him from the floor. Some
people don't like watch dogs of such a
deadly. uncompromising nature. | sold
a good one to an elderly lady once, and
she was slightly astOnished one morning
to find her dog watching ruffian in the
kitchen. He told the lady he hadn't
touched thing. as the dog had kept
him standing still in one spot all night.
He was awful tired, but she gave him
his breakfast and let him go. She
sold the brute back to me at half price,
because, she said, he was too remOrSe-
less. A watch dog is of no use to a lady.
If he barks she is more frightened than
the thieves. She wants soft, silky pet,
who sleeps soundly and don't provoke
the burglars by unSeemly noise. When
their work is finished they silently de-
part. and the robbery becomes known in
the morning, orderly and methodlcally.
Now. man who would rather fight
burglar than lose his goods wants
terrier. He is intelligent
and always investigates everything
before barking. He don't
bark at every noise made by the wind,
but when bone fide attempt is made
by a thief to get in, the dog shifts
around until he exactly understands the
case and then informs the household.
When the voice of one of these terriers
is heard 1t is time to get up. He will
do his share of the work, too. This kind
of dog should never be allowed to be-
come acquainted with strangers.
"Young ladies? Well, they want these
ugly little English pugs, with a Herr
Most cast of countenance and short,
legs. The uglier they are, the
more they want them, and select them
with Nell, what kind of ribbon
would become him?' They like to name
him Ko-Ko and feel quite dignified in
being able to boss something all their
own. We do a good trade in these
dogs" W. K. q.